Subject: [Tweeters] Singing the Praises of Mr. Personality (link)
Date: Jul 11 13:25:20 2008
From: Devorah Bennu - birdologist at yahoo.com


Hello Tweeties,

Why do the bad boyz seem to always get the girl? According to a newly published paper, birdsong provides an interesting hypothesis for this behavior in humans and suggests that this is an evolutionarily sound strategy;

http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2008/07/birds_reveal_their_personality.php

I hope you enjoy this little piece I wrote about this paper.

cheers,

GrrlScientist
Devorah
http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/
Roosting high up a tree somewhere in Central Park, NYC